Discussion

• @mikeisaac Rat King on x

  Greg Brockman says he placed six bucks on patrick collison's desk for his stripe equity. (not sure if this is a known story.) brockman says that six bucks in equity was worth tens if not 100 million when he left in 2015. a lot more valuable now, 11 years later!

• @mikeisaac Rat King on x

  a lot of brockman's testimony is underscoring how he feels Musk is not able to properly assess the capabilities of AI. recounts one instance of him talking to a researcher doing an AI demo in which musk berated the guy so intensely that the dude almost quit the field of AI

• @mikeisaac Rat King on x

  VERY dramatic moment of Brockman's testimony in which he describes a tense standoff with him, ilya and musk: “The conversation turned to equity. And something just shifted in him. He was angry. You could sense it. At the end of the meeting he sat quietly and silently. And said

• @mikeisaac Rat King on x

  lmao. Ilya email to brockman in 2017 about equity structure proposed by musk (which would have potentially given musk majority control and tons of equity) “Will a model 3 make you be willing to accept massively unfavorable terms?” ilya says. (musk had given them all free cars)

• @mikeisaac Rat King on x

  brockman on his infamous journal, which he has maintained for the past 16 years: his Style of writing is “very chain of thought stream of consciousness. Lot of things are contradictory. Lot of time trying to puzzle through different concepts.” for him “It's very painful” to

• @mikeisaac Rat King on x

  a cutting Brockman testimony regarding Musk: “Look, he knows rockets. He knows electric cars. He did not and does not know AI. And Ilya and I did not believe he would spend the time to get good at it.”

• @wowbaggert @wowbaggert on bluesky

  narrator: Musk does not “know” rockets or electric cars either

• @garymarcus Gary Marcus on x

  In vividly explaining how he deceived Musk about his commitment to the nonprofit, without a trace of remorse, OpenAI's Brockman has done Musk's counsel quite a service. Brockman's also been pretty great about illustrating Musk's contributions to the early years of the company.

• @hadas_gold Hadas Gold on x

  I am delayed to listening to Greg Brockman in Musk v. Altman after moderating an event, but Brockman is on the stand and talking about the power struggle in 2017 over who would lead OpenAI. Brockman said he always wanted Altman to lead it. “Look, (Elon) knows rockets. He knows

• @katiemiller Katie Miller on x

  After two days of testimony, it's clear that Greg Brockman put tremendous time, energy, and effort into OpenAI. However, OpenAI was founded as a charity. By definition, a charity does not exist to enrich its founders, employees, or investors. If Greg wanted to build personal

• @michelletomkim Michelle Kim on x

  “I have an apology and confession,” Elon Musk told Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, according to Brockman. Elon told them he had hired Andrej Karpathy, a research scientist at OpenAI, to work at Tesla. Elon had a “guilty look on his face,” Brockman recalls. According to Brockman,

• @garymarcus Gary Marcus on x

  Brockman's counsel is doing a good job of laying out the timeline — but done little so far to refute yesterday's dissection of her client's self-dealing and dodgy behavior regarding his fiduciary responsibilities to the nonprofit.

• @mikeisaac Rat King on x

  brockman testifies he supported the idea of removing adam d'angelo and helen toner from OpenAI board in 2023